Analysis of Heart And Mind
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell 1887 (Scarborough) – 1964 (Weedon Lois)
SAID the Lion to the Lioness-'When you are amber dust,-
No more a raging fire like the heat of the Sun
(No liking but all lust)-
Remember still the flowering of the amber blood and bone,
The rippling of bright muscles like a sea,
Remember the rose-prickles of bright paws
Though the fire of that sun the heart and the moon-cold bone are one.'
Said the Skeleton lying upon the sands of Time-
'The great gold planet that is the mourning heat of the Sun
Is greater than all gold, more powerful
Than the tawny body of a Lion that fire consumes
Like all that grows or leaps...so is the heart
More powerful than all dust. Once I was Hercules
Or Samson, strong as the pillars of the seas:
But the flames of the heart consumed me, and the mind
Is but a foolish wind.'
Said the Sun to the Moon-'When you are but a lonely white crone,
And I, a dead King in my golden armour somewhere in a dark wood,
Remember only this of our hopeless love
That never till Time is done
Will the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one.'
Scheme | ABACXXB XBXXX DDEE CXXBB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101111101 1101010101101 110111 010101001010101 01001110101 010011111 1010111010011111 1010010010111 01110110101101 1101111100 101010101011001 111111101 110011111110 11011010101 101101011001 110101 101101111101011 0101101101010011 010101110101 1101111 1010101001010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,007 |
Words | 206 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 5, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 197 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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